Since DC Comics’ relaunch of its superhero titles, The New 52, began over a year ago, Superman has been a book that has lacked a clear direction and any kind of consistency. George Perez managed a lacklustre six issues before Keith Giffen and Dan Jurgens handed in another entertaining but inconsequential six issues. Scott Lobdell has been the new writer for the past two months, with Kenneth Rocafort on art. So far Lobdell and Rocafort have given us Superman Annual #1, where they spent far too much time telling us that the villain Helspont is a badass and not enough time on the Man of Steel, and Superman #0, a fantastic issue set on Krypton that featured Superman for only one page. It was with some trepidation then that I approached Superman #13. After all, Lobdell and Rocafort had yet to fully demonstrate their vision for Superman and based on their two previous issues I honestly felt that the quality of the book could go either way.